On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 22:23:10 -0800, "Bob Terwilliger"
> wrote:

>Damsel wrote:
>
>> Okay, we have now identified the sound that I make when I read one of
>> your posts, Bob. It's a blood-curdling scream, followed by
>> gust-busting laughter.
>
>Oh, my. What WILL the neighbors think?

The guy downstairs is used to weird sounds coming from up here. I'm
sure he doesn't think a thing of it.

>> Carol, trying to figure the French thing out
>
>It all goes back to René Descartes: He was the French philosopher who made
>his most famous philosophical statement ("Cogito ergo sum") in Latin. The
>statement translates as, "I think, therefore I am." Descartes had set out to
>come up with a statement which could not possibly be doubted: You can have
>ironclad certainty in your own existence, because if you doubt your
>existence, then something must be doing the doubting, which means that you
>are that something.
>
>Why did Descartes express his statement in Latin? Because Descartes was
>French, of course. And he was a THINKER. He was a FRENCH THINKER.
>
>Therefore, sf is not French.

Oh, my ........

Carol

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